50 Cent as a computer scientist.
There’s a lot of people in this thread proudly sharing how they stereotype and have preconceptions about people that they don’t actually know. And them their justification is that everyone should be a two dimensional single issue character archetype with literally no conflict or contradictions. Have you people even met any adults, especially professionals and academics, that aren’t your parents or your teachers?
I mean, I guess Mark Wahlberg could be a teacher, but he’d be one of the ones that gets arrested for something after a year or two.
Because he would be dancing around in his underwear with no shirt to his hit with Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch! Lmao! He’s not believable in anything let’s be honest!
Eiza González, Three Body Problem
I do literally know a few scientists that are this hot, though.
Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. Dude is supposed to be an archeologist but he’s too busy breaking & entering into sacred temples while trampling artifacts to get his dirty hands on some golden relic for profit. Smdh
To be fair, it’s all he’s got going on. His life is in ruins.
You’re comparing archeology today with the field’s rather sorted past rooted in imperialism. They point out this issue in several, if not all, of the movies. This issue also comes up multiple times in the latest game. Nobody is denying that Dr. Jones is an outlier and a rogue amongst his peers. That conflict is like that core of the character’s motivation throughout. He’s a hero of western imperialism fighting fascist imperialism. We tend to view ALL imperialism in a negative light today (as it should be), but that certainly wasn’t the case when we were fighting literal Nazis.
i know many white centrists who are not at all against western imperialism. id argue most white american centrists (and all right wingers) are in favor of western imperialism
Okay but that’s more of a failure of character writing than a failure of casting.
Not “Scientist”, but Mark Wahlberg as a science teacher in The Happening and as an inventor in Transformers 4.
Ludacris in every Fast and Furious
Well, not 1, 3 or 4
Henry Rollins in Johnny Mnemonic. Dude had to play a super nerdy doctor, basically a wet noodle. Let’s cast a guy with a nine inch neck and could actually water his way through most of the bad guy minions.
Henry Rollins would be a better philosopher.
Henry Rollins is a philosopher.
The one that instantly sprung to mind was Denise Richards as nuclear physicist Dr. Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough.
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RFK jr?
Too real man… To real
Alexandra Daddario in the AMC show The Mayfair Witches.
She ostensibly plays a brilliant brain surgeon. She starts experiencing some spooky witch and demon-related goings on.
She meets up with a guy working for a paranormal research group. He tells her in no uncertain terms “Do not leave this magically-protected apartment. You are in great danger.” She agrees.
Five minutes later she walks out of the apartment onto the street. She immediately wanders into a New Orleans street party, is handed an open drink from a stranger, drinks it, and whoopsy daisy gets magically roofied into a demon-engineered hallucination of her dead mother.
Brilliant. Brain. Surgeon.
That’s bad writing not bad casting.
I worked with a few PhDs in the past. PhDs do not equal common sense.
As a hiring manager in IT for decades, I learned early: do not hire PhDs
They can write a paper about why the program does not work. They are not willing to sit down roll up their sleeves get intimate with a debugger and make the program work.
After increasingly cussing the TV as the level of stupid rose higher and higher, we made it to the part where magic purple witch spray was used. I paused the TV and my girl and I just looked at each other, we were done.
Also, who the fuck writes in a fucking basement in New Orleans? Not motherfucking Anne Rice. So stupid.
We’re finishing up the second season of Interview with a Vampire. Other than a bad Southern accent in the first season, it’s excellent and super queer. Highly recommend.
I’ve known some incredibly stupid doctors though. They’re extremely good at their field but anything outside that? Horrific!
Ben Carson, though RFK makes Ben’s stupid appointment look inspired.
I was just thinking of two doctors I met in person but yes, some of them in the news as well!
The one I remember the most had some really…interesting ideas about food safety and only stopped some of them when I pointed out food safety knowledge has been furthered since her grandmother’s time. Just like. You know. Medicine has.
That guy they got to play Stephen Hawking in ST:TNG
You mean Stephen Hawking?
Yes
Dude couldn’t act at all, sounded downright robotic.
Oh yeah, he was one of those actors that could only play himself one way or the other
If you see actors and artists which really are scientists, or simply scientists in the real world, you know that you can’t suppose nothing by the aspect or how freaky (s)he is.
Dr.Mayim Bialik (Neuro-biology, neuro science)
Prof.Dr. Ville-Petri Friman (Microbiology, Gitarrist and singer of a Death Metal band)
Prof.Dr, Misha Lemeshko (Quantum physik, director of the Lemeshko group, YouTube scientific channel)
etc,
50 cents a computer scientist?Why not? Computer science is almost pretty absurd in movies
How about Dolph Lundgren. The Russian boxer from Rocky 2 has a MS in Chemical Engineering and Fulbright scholarship from MIT.
Danica McKellar (Winnie Cooper from the Wonder Years) has a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Chicago and had graduated summa cum laude from UCLA for her BS.
Those are my favorites.
Rocky 4, but yes
Add Dexter Holland to the list. Lead Singer for the Offspring
And Greg Graffin from Bad Religion.
Graffin obtained his PhD in zoology at Cornell University and has lectured courses in natural sciences at both the University of California, Los Angeles and at Cornell University.
…and Milo Aukerman (Descendents), who went to college (and became a molecular biologist).
He wanted that suburban home after all.
I would have thought you’d pick the more obvious example of Dexter Holland, from the Offspring, who has a PhD in molecular biology. Apparently the line “Gotta keep 'em separated” from Come Out and Play was inspired by two chemicals that he had to keep separated.
Brian May from Queen has a PhD in astrophysics. He quit his PhD when Queen started seeing success. Went back and finished in like 2007 IIRC.
I guess I should have read a little further down before throwing his name in the pile.
I would also drop this dude, because he’s pretty fly (for a white guy); https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Holland
Yeah ok not an educator or a particularly famous name in the sphere, but a PhD don’t come for free
This guy too
True, but I find his narrative arc less compelling
There’s tonnes of metalheads in science. It’s great. Gives me folks to go to gigs with.
Steven Seagal playing Wesley McClaren, a doctor and former government research immunologist in this masterpiece:
Steven Seagal in ANY MOVIE! Horrible actor and he’s even a “master in martial arts” and still is horrible and a laughable actor in movies trying to “showcase” his talent. Haha!
Anyone remember, “Belly of the Beast” hahaha. (BTW he wrote it!) it’s embarrassing!
To be fair, he’s just as unbelievable playing anyone with an average IQ.
you take that back or he will snatch every motherfucking punani
Without even standing up
Imagine trying to rent a mediocre Gibson movie and accidentally getting a shitty Seagal movie instead!
I need my money back for the rental plus $100k for having you do that to me! Lmao!
I wonder if space ice had reviewed it
You didn’t like it? I thought it was really good.
I hated all the white washing Mel does though…
Like an 18th century southern planter with freemen africans working his farm. Sure ok Mel
Or that he was a steward for first nations? Ya I found out about that man
Omg, I forgot.
He’s doing some some serious science in that one for about 1:30 minutes. A rare cerebral moment in his filmography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pueLyUlJFTc&t=4023
Oof, this was extremely painful to watch. I hadn’t seen this actor actually acting in anything before and didn’t realize how bad he was…
And you still haven’t seen him acting.
As a microbiologist, I can confirm much of my job has been staring at and gently fingering chemistry glassware diagrams.
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I forgor. :(
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Not scientist but Ludacris is like a master fucking hacker in Fast and Furious right, that’s very not believable.
it has to be Mark Wahlberg in the Happening I think as the most unbelievable “scientist” casting and then followed up by misunderstood actual genius engineer in Transformers.
Glasses and nerd clothing and we’re good to go.
Some kind of shell bracelet I think is also mandatory
